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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (21492)	8/11/2001 2:19:45 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Marriage is a relationship among any number of persons of any combination of genders. This is an example of how the left controls the language. I thought 'gender' referred to grammatical classifications. gen·der n. Grammar. A grammatical category used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms. One category of such a set. The classification of a word or grammatical form in such a category. The distinguishing form or forms used. We began using substituting 'gender' for 'sex' about when we started accenting the first syllable in harass. Which was about when we first began hearing of the notion of 'sexual harassment.' The language police didn't want it sounding like 'her ass.'

To: The Philosopher who wrote (21492)	8/11/2001 2:26:18 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I just haven't gotten to believe in level two yet. You used the word, marriage, and I used the word, family. If you used family, level two might be easier. Yes, marriage is supposed to be about producing children, more or less. We've gotten away from that. People think about marriage in terms of two people with a sexual relationship. We've moved somewhat away from that in that sex and children occur in and out of marriage. Traditionalists would have us go back to that standard. I say, move on. It's not like we need to worry nowadays about producing enough children to insure the survival of the species. Who is family? Family is the set of people to whom we offer condolences when someone dies or whom we congratulate when someone wins a prize. Most of us have families. The people who comprise our families, though, may not all be related to us. Why can't we formalize the relationship among those people who are teamed together in families? Right now a family unit is defined by birth, death, marriage, and adoption. That means that only people who fit certain criteria can form families. Why shouldn't two or three or more old people who are close join together as family for mutual support? Even when older men and women marry, it's not necessarily about sex and it's definitely not about having babies. As they say, men want a nurse or a purse. Women want companionship, support, someone to fuss over. Maybe there's sex, maybe not. Who cares? Seems to be it's in society's best interests that they form a family and care for each other so Medicaid won't have to. I guess, under current law, they could form a family by adopting one another. I've seen that that's being done. Or through some combination of marriage and adoption. But that's really clumsy. Seems much simpler to me if they just enter a family contract, like a group marriage. If we quit focusing on sex, it doesn't seem unnatural. Family can include traditional marriages and also other arrangements. Karen